node.js and npm

[davidjorgensen]

Hello

I am so far loving babun. With some initial setup errors, I finally got it working.
There are still some kinks here and there and I am trying to fix them one at a time.

I have some problems with both node.js and npm. both of which are failing.

net.js:156
    this._handle.open(options.fd);
                 ^
Error: EINVAL, invalid argument
    at new Socket (net.js:156:18)
    at process.stdin (node.js:660:19)
    at startup (node.js:145:16)
    at node.js:902:3

Quick searches reveal something about node.js not working with cygwin..

Any thoughts?

This could be a dealbreaker for me, as I have some important developer tools running node.js

[srijanshetty]

The node team officially stopped supporting cygwin after 0.4.12.
Here's the wiki link https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Building-node.js-on-Cygwin-(Windows)

[sveggiani]

Ohh, same problem for me. I was SO happy with babun until I had to resume some projects using node.js (gulp, bower, etc).
Any chance to use replace cygwin? maybe msysGit?

[Chris2011]

Sry for post, I saw this ticket: #106 thats why I deleted my post.

[Chris2011]

My problem is the same as here: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#5618 my version of node is 0.10.17 and I really want to use node inside babun. I implemented babun inside ConEmu with help of the FAQ and maybe it's a problem with the parameters(?). When I create a new console and type this: "C:\Users\chrl.babun\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i" I got an ugly black babun shell with a blue color for the dir and red arrows and when I type node, there is no problem only when I do it via the FAQ.

Regards

Chris

[elebeaup]

An alternative solution is to use Winpty and create an alias.

$ alias node="console cmd /c node"
$ node
> console.log('Hello World')
Hello World

[warrenfalk]

Thought I'd share the answer given by stack-overflow user, troy, at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10043177/node-js-cygwin-not-supported

With admin rights, run dos2unix '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/npm'

That solves many issues, then if you continue to get EINVAL, this can usually be resolved by running a command in the native cygwin shell

cygstart /bin/bash

[tombujok]

@jlupi does it work for you now?

[TWGerard]

It's not ideal, but you can do this with a virtual machine using Vagrant. Check out this vagrant box I've been using:

https://github.com/semmypurewal/node-dev-bootstrap

[lukecfairchild]

@elebeaup I could kiss you, that works perfectly.

[jorgeorpinel]

@warrenfalk I read about dos2unix elsewhere and yes, that works for me. Thanks